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Password CGI-based Services Properties Files

Password Services properties files determine the text displayed on the HTML pages used to collect information from users and display status messages. This text includes:

• Field names
• Dialog titles
• Status messages and instructions for users
• Links and button text

To generate HTML pages, the Password Services CGI uses the Password Services templates. When the CGI encounters a parameter in the templates, it searches for a corresponding identifier defined in a Properties file. The Properties files pairs the identifier with a text string, which is added to the generated HTML page.

The following is a sample of the contents of a Password Services Properties file:

szPWNewPWChange = New Password

You can modify the text string to the right of the equal sign (=) to change the label that appears in the generated HTML pages; however, you should not modify the identifier on the left.

Note: Password Services requires that all characters in the properties files are UTF-8 encoded. Any characters that are not UTF-8 encoded (such as umlauts or tildes in the Windows or the 8-bit ASCII character sets) will not be processed correctly.

Password Services installs Properties files for the following languages:

• English (US-EN): PasswordServicesUS-EN.properties
• French (FR-FR): PasswordServicesFR-FR.properties
• Japanese (JP-JP): PasswordServicesJP-JP.properties

These files are located in the following directory:

• Windows:web_agent_installation\pw
• UNIX: web_agent_installation/pw

where web_agent_installation> is the installed location of the SiteMinder Web Agent.